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Checkerboard Mesa, Zion National Park, Utah
Plants are the ultimate opportunists. Given enough water, sunlight, and somewhere to anchor their roots, they will grow and thrive. This little tree is growing out of a crack in the sandstone making up Checkerboard Mesa.
Now as to the sandstone itself, it originated in early Jurassic times (roughly 190 million years ago) in a desert on the western edge of the Pangaea supercontinent, a desert much larger than the modern Sahara. The horizontal cross-bedding of the sandstone indicates that the sand was laid down by wind. The vertical cracking comes from burial compression and release from that compression through erosion. The resulting cross-hatch, or checkerboard, effect gives the mesa its name.
One single long exposure. No photoedition : straight out of the camera except for contrast/crop.
Model: Tribal Lotta
Lights: Vincent Gerber
Big thanks to Vincent Michel for the location. ;)
Light painting session with Tribal Lotta & Vincent Gerber
There are so many amazing trees like this in Puzzlewood, an ancient temperate rain forest in Gloucestershire.
HTT!
There was something about the lovely parallel lines of this young maize crop really appealed to me. Perhaps it was the way they lead to this old gnarly Oak that looked like a huge beetroot.
Trees have about them something beautiful and attractive even to the fancy,
since they cannot change their places,
are witnesses of all the changes that take place around them;
and as some reach a great age, they become, as it were, historical monuments,
and like ourselves they have a life, growing and passing away,
--not being inanimate and unvarying like the fields and rivers.
One sees them passing through various stages,
and at last step by step approaching death,
which makes them look still more like ourselves.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Winter is just around the corner. Stay warm.
Roots. At the moment, my roots, what keeps me stable, are my daily practices.
In the morning, I journal and meditate.
Later, I do yoga, keep my gratitude list, read and play a little bit on my tongue drum.
Trying to get out of my head and into the moment. Trying to learn and evolve.
And hoping that all those little building blocks will grow and blossom into something beautiful over time.
This photo was a beautiful collaboration with my friend Micah, taken under a tree that grew from the bottom of the canyon all the way into the sky.
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October 21, 2015
"Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots." - Frank A. Clark
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I'm not entirely sure why this caught my eye today, it's sort of a strange shot for me, but I liked the way the rocks were mixed with the roots and the textures of the bark.
Flipped the photo to monochrome and found it uniquely beautiful so I decided to go for it and use it for today's photo.
Hope everyone has had a good day! We've made it past the half way point of the week, the weekend is getting closer!
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The same tree as previous. It's been ripped right out of the ground; roots and all. While nobody I know personally suffered any damage, there's a lot of it around.
I haven't edited or posted anything in a while so here's an SOOC shot from our outing to cloudland canyon for your consideration. ;-)
While pretty much rooted to home in another lockdown I thought I'd root through my previous holiday photos and post some that haven't seen the light of day on Flickr before.
Dusk falls over Paris in April 2018. Taken from the Montparnasse Tower. This high up view, like so many similar views of Paris shows off just how 'flat' Paris is. Very few tall buildings inhabit the city centre leaving it unchanged over so many years. The building of the Montparnasse Tower caused such outrage that with few exceptions, tall buildings are now confined to La Defense. The Parisian equivalent of Canary Wharf. The road going up the middle is the Rue de Renne with Eglise Saint Sulpice on the right of it. In the middle distance can be seen the Louvre Museum and Art Gallery with the Seine in front of it. Cathedrale Notre Dame de Paris can be seen on the far right of the picture.
Nothing I love wearing more than sandals. Sandals mean warm weather and Eudora3D makes sandals that do your feet good!
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A tangle of roots and vines deep within the jungle interior.
Las Piedras Amazon Center, Madre de Dios, Peru
So many cherry blossom images to share, so little time. Less than 11 months, come to think of it... before the trees will be blooming again.
Image made with my Hasselblad 500 C/M.
Rooted in Stone. © Copyright 2023 G Dan Mitchell.
A mature tree growing in cracks in a fractured Yosemite cliff.
Even as I work on new photographs, I constantly return to old files to see what I might have missed — and there is always something to discover. When I look back at photographs long after I first mad them it seems like I can see them for what they are more than for what I expected them to be. As evidence of this, often I don’t recall the specific circumstances of making the photograph… and sometimes I don’t remember making it at all.
I know I made this on a very quick swing through Yosemite Valley as we returned from a few days spent in Oakhurst for a gallery show opening. At this point, the specific details of visits to Yosemite Valley being to blur together, since I’ve been visiting the place since I was about five years old. How many times total? Scores? Hundreds? I can’t say. But I’m still amazed that trees like this one can grow in such unlikely places.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.
Shrooom girl !!
-Hair : [monso] Kaine & [monso] Smolfry.
-Skin : HUMAN GLITCH // SKFOPVL & (Enfer Sombre*) Lipstick - Runa {Rose}
-Brows : [SB] LivAutumn Neutral.
-Eyes : AG. Festive.
-Lashes : MICHAN - Ciara Lashes B.
-Ears : .random.Matter. - Natural Pixie.
-Tattoo : [REVERIE] Body Freckles & Moles.
[Glam Affair ] Iris - Moles (A) & (B)
-{ MoonPhase } LittleToadstool Hat&Blush.
-Clover - Vine wrap.
~Pose : Foxcity. Vibing -3.
-HPMD* Garden Tree09 with Lights - pink.
-HPMD* dust floating on the water.
-Skye Enchanted Woods.
-+Half-Deer+ Daydreaming Tree.
-{anc} bubble.
-.: Runic :. Crystal Rain Dream.
-E.V.E Ivy w/o Bioluminescent Fungus.
-Ariskea[Holo] Stump Mushrooms.
-Foxwood - Fluffs.
-Foxwood - Fox Hollow.
-LOVE - MIXED WILDFLOWERS.
We never look deeply into the quality of a tree;
we never really touch it,
feel its solidity,
its rough bark,
and hear the sound that is part of the tree.
Not the sound of wind through the leaves,
not the breeze of a morning that flutters the leaves,
but its own sound,
the sound of the trunk and the silent sound of the roots.
(Jiddu Krishnamurti)